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Kōrero: Unpaid domestic work

Doing the dishes

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Doing the dishes

Albert Percy Godber photographed his daughter Phyllis washing up, around 1911. Doing the dishes is a traditional chore carried out by New Zealand children to keep a household functioning in the absence of paid household help.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)

Reference: APG-1393-1/2; G

by Albert Percy Godber

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Housework and caregiving, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23299/doing-the-dishes (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Matt Morris, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.